Joo's Book Reviews and Interviews

Here is a tiny interview How do you strike the balance between writing something you want to write and writing something that pe...

Ian's 5 year old son, Alex, was kidnapped, raped and murdered with the kidnapper being also killed.  Now Alex is "haunting" Ia...

Jack MacFadden has just turned thirteen and his imaginary friend, Puck, tells him his true path in life. This is a lovely magical story ab...

Interrogating John A A Logan, a man with a big back-list just waiting to get out. How do you strike the balance between writing so...

One day 10 year old Carmel loses her 3 year old sister Polly at a fair.  This is the story of how Carmel copes with the guilt.  But this sto...

I started reading this book without really knowing much about it.  Other reviewers I trust had recommended it, so I thought I'd have a r...

Heeeeere's Jonny How do you strike the balance between writing something you want to write and writing something that people w...

Blood Will Out is another book in the Elversford series of police procedurals by Linda Gruchy.  This time it is centred around  Suzy Rolfe, ...

This is one of Rosen's heart-wrenchingly sad short stories.  Rosen (as shown in her book Seesaw) can write very funny and also full of p...

Alice Parker is a thirteen year old on the threshold of change.  But not quite into womanhood. This is a story for younger children, but t...

Darren Humphries the geek that's in a parallel universe. How do you strike the balance between writing something you want to w...

Love Rage is a short story which packs a punch.  The story matter is not for the faint-hearted, although it's not as gruesome as a lot o...

Interrogating Alan McDermott, author of Gray Justice How do you strike the balance between writing something you want to write a...